Jeanne Marie Laskas Quotes

Coal mines make the news only when they explode, collapse, kill. It's exciting! Tragedy! Fodder for a cable-news frenzy.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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TragedyNewsCoalOnlyExciting

Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.

Joe Biden

AmericaKnowBuildClassUnions

I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.

Megan Abbott

FoodThinkViewPlaceWayEveryone

I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.

Andy Van Slyke

FatherPoliticsBaseballMeBetter

I enjoy provocative things that are questionable.

Michael Douglas

EnjoyThingsQuestionableProvocative

There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.

Alvin Lee

LifeAgeMyselfKnowBigWell

My only opinion on the L&H 'home movie' situation - I regret we have no financial interest in them.

Stan Laurel

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Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.

Rumaan Alam

OrganizingUsefulWriterBetween

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

Michel De Certeau

FreedomIndividualSystemLeftOnly

If caught early, Lyme is easily treated with antibiotics. But activists, and many researchers, have long contended that tens of thousands of people remain unaware that they have been infected - sometimes for years, during which the bacterium can spread to the heart, nervous system, and brain.

Michael Specter

HeartPeopleBrainLongEarlyYears

Some of the most interesting characters in literature and in movies and TV have been ones that you can't quite figure out all the way.

Michael McKean

InterestingLiteratureYouMovies

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

Mindy Kaling

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Toronto is actually way more fast-paced than L.A. - I find the fast-paced nature of Toronto a bit obtrusive. In L.A., I love getting up and going hiking and going to the beach - that's L.A. culture and it's awesome and I miss it. Toronto culture is wonderful, but I miss L.A.

Jordan Gavaris

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